Good morning colleagues and happy summer to you allJ

I was happy to find out that next year my SLO can center around getting more kids into the LMC-

My primary supervisor says I can use a variety of Destiny statistics and the student sign in sheets for evidence in order to fulfill my IAGDs.

I’d love to hear from you all as to what you’ve done in your own LMC to make this a reality, or even something that you are thinking about implementing in the near future.   Whether it be from contests you have successfully run, whole school literacy based events, lunch groups, getting classes coming down to check out books, students coming into the lmc from study hall, classes coming in for research, etc.…   

Currently, my middle school library serves students in grades 6-8 and our student population is typically about 1,000 students/year.

I’ve already reached out to some of my colleagues from other districts and they’ve shared some great ideas with me.  Leslie Poulos, the LMS at Silas Deane Middle, has inspired me to start a Literary Committee whose main function is to promote literacy through school wide events. 

One of the things I already do to promote school wide literacy is host our annual Scholastic book fair.

 

Some other ideas that I received from Leslie, who chairs the literacy committee in her school, include: 

·         trivia contents based on books we own that are being released as movies (for example, Mockingjay, Part 2 trivia)

·         Battle of the 2017 Teen Nutmeg Books

·         Author visits, or skyping visits with authors

·         Teen and Intermediate Nutmeg Voting (I do this here in my LMC during the month of April, but I would like to work with the newly formed committee to have it more heavily promoted within classrooms)

·         Nutmeg Luncheon

·         Hot Cocoa Café in the LMC after school (Drop Everything and Read)

 

Again, if you run any events in your library that you have found to be successful/create excitement, whether it involve a small portion of your school population or the entire school population, I’d love to hear from you.

 

I would be more than happy to share out all the great ideas I receive.

Thanks again for your time and I wish you all a happy and healthy summerJ